Bibliographic Summary

A Brief History of Mount Pleasant Through the Eras

Bibliographic Summary of Sources

Petrona Royall McIver, the author of History of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (Mount Pleasant Town Council, 1960) was 77 years old when Mayor Francis F. Coleman and Town Council sponsored her publication of the town’s history. Remarkably, McIver produced an updated book ten years later in celebration of South Carolina’s tricentennial.This local history book has withstood the test of time as a worthy record of the town’s story in the eyes of both scholars and laymen.The selection of McIver, a sixth generation Mount Pleasant native, was the prudent decision of an earlier Town Council and her work is honored here, fifty years later, as the foundation of "A Brief History” on the municipal website History Page.

The following list is a selection of the resources used to write the ten sections of A Brief History:

• Anne King Gregorie, Christ Church, 1706-1959: A Plantation Parish of the South Carolina Establishment. Charleston, South Carolina: The Dalcho Historical Society, 1961. Excellent early history, source for 1721 population figures.

• South Carolina Historical Society, "'A Narrative... of an Assembly... January the 2d, 1705/6': New Light on Early South Carolina Politics," The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 85, No. 3 (Jul., 1984), 181-6.

• South Carolina Historical Society's The Civil War in South Carolina: Selections from the South Carolina Historical Magazine, edited by Lawrence S. Rowland and Stephen G. Hoffius, Home House Press, 302-8.

• Brockington and Associates, Historic Resources Survey of the Old Village Historic District: Mount Pleasant, Charleston County, South Carolina, October 2010 Final Report. Mount Pleasant: Brockington and Associates, 2010, 10, 11.

• Amy McCandless, “Mount Pleasant,” in The South Carolina Encyclopedia, editor Walter Edgar. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 2006, 651.

• Terry Lipscomb, The Carolina Lowcountry April 1775-June 1776. Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1991, 19-20, 23-4, 26, 40-1. See this for a discussion on the Revolutionary War battle at Fort Sullivan (Moultrie).

• David Lee Russell, Victory on Sullivan’s Island: The British Cape Fear/Charles Town Expedition of 1776. Haverford, PA: Infinity Publishing Company, 2002, 240-1. See this for a discussion on the Revolutionary War battle at Fort Sullivan (Moultrie).

• Betty Lee Johnson, As I Remember It: An Oral History of the East Cooper Area, Vols I, II. Self-published, 1987.

• S. Max Edelson, Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006. The description of plantation agriculture used here is found in Edelson’s book on p. 47 with an endnote #94 on p. 298, 50.

• Peter McCandless, Slavery, Disease and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2011. This is a study of the relationship between the region’s rice-growing slave economy and its high incidence of disease mortality and morbidity in the Carolina Colony at the end of the eighteenth century.

• South Carolina Department of Archives and History: for research resources and Palmetto Battery images (link for images <http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/charleston/S10817710130/index.htm>), (assessed 03/25/2011).

• On the 1886 Earthquake: See "A Terrible Night," Berkeley Gazette, September 4, 1886; "After the Quake," Berkley Gazette, September 11, 1886; "The Shake at Mount Pleasant," The News and Courier, September 3, 1886; "Damage at Mount Pleasant," The News and Courier, September 4, 1886. For an interesting scientific investigation into the liquefaction potential of aged soil deposits, based on this event, see T. Heidari and R. D. Andrus, “Mapping Liquefaction Potential of Aged Soil Deposits in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina,” Engineering Geology, Vol. 112, Issue 1-4 (March 2010).